Bernard Collier

He was the second Vicar Apostolic and the first Diocesan Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port-Louis from 14 February 1840 until his resignation on 6 September 1863.

After the school education, he subsequently joined the Benedictine Douai Abbey,[1] where he made a profession and was ordained as a priest in 1826,[2] after completed philosophical and theological studies.

He served as a procurator general of the English Benedictines to the Holy See in Rome, until his election as bishop.

[2] After his returning from the missionary work in Mauritius, Bishop Collier was actively included in the service for the Catholics in Herefordshire and Wales.

[4] He died in Herefordshire on 21 November 1890 and was buried at the Abbots' Graveyard in the Benedictine Priory in Belmont.